Helge Brattebø
Biographic Data
| ID | 7575560 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helge Brattebø |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helge |
| FAMILY NAME | Brattebø |
| SIGNATURE | BRATTEBØ H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8095-1663 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reducing material use and their greenhouse gas emissions in Greater Oslo
Resource efficiency strategies are key to reduce material use and help limit global warming to below 2°C in 2100. Understanding the role of such strategies at the municipal level requires a localized approach. Here we evaluate a ramp‐up of resource efficiency strategies and their associated effects on car use and climate benefits toward 2050 for 19 individual subregions within the Greater Oslo region in Norway. In our scenarios, material stocks i…
Analysis of electricity use and economic impacts for buildings with electric heating under lockdown conditions
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant impacts on energy demand in Norway and many countries. It is important to improve the existing knowledge of building operation under unforeseeable disturbances. This study aimed to identify the potential problems of electricity use patterns for four building types with electric heating: kindergartens, schools, apartments, and townhouses. By comparing the electricity profiles for the lockdown period 202…
Temporal analysis of the material flows and embodied greenhouse gas emissions of a neighborhood building stock
Low-energy building standards shift environmental impacts from the operational to the embodied emissions, making material efficiency (ME) important for climate mitigation. To help quantify the mitigation potential of ME strategies, we developed a model that simulates the temporal material flows and greenhouse gas embodied emissions (GEEs) of the material use in the construction and renovation activities of a neighborhood by combining life-cycle a…
A life‐cycle assessment model for zero emission neighborhoods
Buildings represent a critical piece of a low‐carbon future, and their long lifetime necessitates urgent adoption of state‐of‐the‐art performance standards to avoid significant lock‐in risk regarding long‐lasting technology solution choices. Buildings, mobility, and energy systems are closely linked, and assessing their nexus by aiming for Zero Emission Neighborhoods (ZENs) provides a unique chance to contribute to climate change mitigation. We c…
Energy renovation rates in the Netherlands – comparing long and short term prediction methods
The building sector plays a major role in order to meet the energy saving targets set in the EU and the Netherlands (SER, 2013; ürge-Vorsatz et al., 2007). Existing buildings are responsible for 36% of the CO2 emissions in the European Union (EU) (European Commission, 2008 and 2014). Moreover, among the end use sectors – industry, transport, households, services, fishing, agriculture, forestry and non-specified – households represent one of the m…
Winners of the 2016 Graedel Prizes
Winners of the 2015 Graedel Prizes
Investigating Cross‐Sectoral Synergies through Integrated Aquaculture, Fisheries, and Agriculture Phosphorus Assessments
Future phosphorus (P) scarcity and eutrophication risks demonstrate the need for systems‐wide P assessments. Despite the projected drastic increase in world‐wide fish production, P studies have yet to include the aquaculture and fisheries sectors, thus eliminating the possibility of assessing their relative importance and identifying opportunities for recycling. Using Norway as a case, this study presents the results of a current‐status integrate…
Winners of the 2014 Graedel Prizes
Introducing First Winners of the Graedel Prize
Carbon Emissions of Infrastructure Development
Identifying strategies for reconciling human development and climate change mitigation requires an adequate understanding of how infrastructures contribute to well-being and greenhouse gas emissions. While direct emissions from infrastructure use are well-known, information about indirect emissions from their construction is highly fragmented. Here, we estimated the carbon footprint of the existing global infrastructure stock in 2008, assuming cu…
Typifying cities to streamline the selection of relevant environmental sustainability indicators for urban water supply and sewage handling systems
Assessment of Environmental Impacts of an Aging and Stagnating Water Supply Pipeline Network
Aging urban infrastructure is a common phenomenon in industrialized countries. The urban water supply pipeline network in the city of Oslo is an example. Even as it faces increasing operational, maintenance, and management challenges, it needs to better its environmental performance by reducing, for instance, the associated greenhouse gas emissions. In this article the authors examine the environmental life cycle performance of Oslo's water suppl…
Combined MFA‐LCA for Analysis of Wastewater Pipeline Networks
Oslo's wastewater pipeline network has an aging stock of concrete, steel, and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipelines, which calls for a good portion of expenditures to be directed toward maintenance and investments in rehabilitation. The stock, as it is in 2008, is a direct consequence of the influx of pipelines of different sizes, lengths, and materials of construction into the system over the years. A material flow analysis (MFA) facilitates an ana…
Dynamic Eco‐Efficiency Projections for Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling Strategies at the City Level
In this article we have elaborated a consistent framework for the quantification and evaluation of eco‐efficiency for scenarios for waste treatment of construction and demolition (C&D) waste. Such waste systems will play an increasingly important role in the future, as there has been for many years, and still is, a significant net increase in stock in the built environment. Consequently, there is a need to discuss future waste management strategi…
Projection of Construction and Demolition Waste in Norway
Current waste generation from the construction and demolition industry (C&D industry) in Norway is about 1.25 million tonnes per year. This article presents a procedure for projection of future waste amounts by estimating the activity level in the C&D industry, determining specific waste generation factors related to this activity, and finally calculating projections on flows of waste materials leaving the stocks in use and moving into the waste …
Toward a Methods Framework for Eco‐efficiency Analysis
Industrial Ecology and Education
Teaching Industrial Ecology to Graduate Students
We reflect on our experiences in developing and teaching industrial ecology to interdisciplinary classes of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students. During a three‐year period different ways of teaching a course in industrial ecology were tested. We conclude that an industrial ecology course has positive effects on the students' ability to acquire a holistic understanding of life‐cycle environmental performance, a skill much in demand by industry. Such a course…
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Teaching Industrial Ecology to Graduate Students
We reflect on our experiences in developing and teaching industrial ecology to interdisciplinary classes of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students. During a three‐year period different ways of teaching a course in industrial ecology were tested. We conclude that an industrial ecology course has positive effects on the students' ability to acquire a holistic understanding of life‐cycle environmental performance, a skill much in demand by industry. Such a course…
Industrial Ecology and Education
Toward a Methods Framework for Eco‐efficiency Analysis
Projection of Construction and Demolition Waste in Norway
Current waste generation from the construction and demolition industry (C&D industry) in Norway is about 1.25 million tonnes per year. This article presents a procedure for projection of future waste amounts by estimating the activity level in the C&D industry, determining specific waste generation factors related to this activity, and finally calculating projections on flows of waste materials leaving the stocks in use and moving into the waste …
Dynamic Eco‐Efficiency Projections for Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling Strategies at the City Level
In this article we have elaborated a consistent framework for the quantification and evaluation of eco‐efficiency for scenarios for waste treatment of construction and demolition (C&D) waste. Such waste systems will play an increasingly important role in the future, as there has been for many years, and still is, a significant net increase in stock in the built environment. Consequently, there is a need to discuss future waste management strategi…
Combined MFA‐LCA for Analysis of Wastewater Pipeline Networks
Oslo's wastewater pipeline network has an aging stock of concrete, steel, and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipelines, which calls for a good portion of expenditures to be directed toward maintenance and investments in rehabilitation. The stock, as it is in 2008, is a direct consequence of the influx of pipelines of different sizes, lengths, and materials of construction into the system over the years. A material flow analysis (MFA) facilitates an ana…
Assessment of Environmental Impacts of an Aging and Stagnating Water Supply Pipeline Network
Aging urban infrastructure is a common phenomenon in industrialized countries. The urban water supply pipeline network in the city of Oslo is an example. Even as it faces increasing operational, maintenance, and management challenges, it needs to better its environmental performance by reducing, for instance, the associated greenhouse gas emissions. In this article the authors examine the environmental life cycle performance of Oslo's water suppl…
Carbon Emissions of Infrastructure Development
Identifying strategies for reconciling human development and climate change mitigation requires an adequate understanding of how infrastructures contribute to well-being and greenhouse gas emissions. While direct emissions from infrastructure use are well-known, information about indirect emissions from their construction is highly fragmented. Here, we estimated the carbon footprint of the existing global infrastructure stock in 2008, assuming cu…
Typifying cities to streamline the selection of relevant environmental sustainability indicators for urban water supply and sewage handling systems
Winners of the 2014 Graedel Prizes
Introducing First Winners of the Graedel Prize
Winners of the 2015 Graedel Prizes
Investigating Cross‐Sectoral Synergies through Integrated Aquaculture, Fisheries, and Agriculture Phosphorus Assessments
Future phosphorus (P) scarcity and eutrophication risks demonstrate the need for systems‐wide P assessments. Despite the projected drastic increase in world‐wide fish production, P studies have yet to include the aquaculture and fisheries sectors, thus eliminating the possibility of assessing their relative importance and identifying opportunities for recycling. Using Norway as a case, this study presents the results of a current‐status integrate…
Winners of the 2016 Graedel Prizes
Energy renovation rates in the Netherlands – comparing long and short term prediction methods
The building sector plays a major role in order to meet the energy saving targets set in the EU and the Netherlands (SER, 2013; ürge-Vorsatz et al., 2007). Existing buildings are responsible for 36% of the CO2 emissions in the European Union (EU) (European Commission, 2008 and 2014). Moreover, among the end use sectors – industry, transport, households, services, fishing, agriculture, forestry and non-specified – households represent one of the m…
A life‐cycle assessment model for zero emission neighborhoods
Buildings represent a critical piece of a low‐carbon future, and their long lifetime necessitates urgent adoption of state‐of‐the‐art performance standards to avoid significant lock‐in risk regarding long‐lasting technology solution choices. Buildings, mobility, and energy systems are closely linked, and assessing their nexus by aiming for Zero Emission Neighborhoods (ZENs) provides a unique chance to contribute to climate change mitigation. We c…
Analysis of electricity use and economic impacts for buildings with electric heating under lockdown conditions
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant impacts on energy demand in Norway and many countries. It is important to improve the existing knowledge of building operation under unforeseeable disturbances. This study aimed to identify the potential problems of electricity use patterns for four building types with electric heating: kindergartens, schools, apartments, and townhouses. By comparing the electricity profiles for the lockdown period 202…
Temporal analysis of the material flows and embodied greenhouse gas emissions of a neighborhood building stock
Low-energy building standards shift environmental impacts from the operational to the embodied emissions, making material efficiency (ME) important for climate mitigation. To help quantify the mitigation potential of ME strategies, we developed a model that simulates the temporal material flows and greenhouse gas embodied emissions (GEEs) of the material use in the construction and renovation activities of a neighborhood by combining life-cycle a…
Reducing material use and their greenhouse gas emissions in Greater Oslo
Resource efficiency strategies are key to reduce material use and help limit global warming to below 2°C in 2100. Understanding the role of such strategies at the municipal level requires a localized approach. Here we evaluate a ramp‐up of resource efficiency strategies and their associated effects on car use and climate benefits toward 2050 for 19 individual subregions within the Greater Oslo region in Norway. In our scenarios, material stocks i…
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